Innovation Hub for German Automotive Giant

Innovation Hub for German Automotive Giant | Bengaluru

This R&D centre brings together five previously separate teams under one roof in the C5 Tower at Bengaluru’s prime business hub of Brigade Tech  Garden. Vestian was appointed to deliver a 2.55 lakh sq ft fit‑out across the first to fifth floors within 120  days, while the landlord’s base‑build works were still in progress. The shell, a LEED‑Platinum SEZ block, offered deep floor plates, generous floor‑to‑floor heights, and a glazed north‑south façade—yet came with the logistical tangle of installing a full-scale indoor car-test bay and working to a lean interiors budget.

Early design charrettes imagined a full-throttle motorsport narrative—step seating wrapping the atrium like grandstands, tyre‑mark graphics sweeping across the floors, even pantry niches lined with rear‑view mirrors. While budget and schedule trimmed that vision, key ideas were retained: the first‑floor car‑display and test bay, circulation‑ring lighting, and colour‑blocked neighbourhood cores still evoke the original Gear Up Garage idea, now pared back to serve day‑to‑day workflows.

Visitors arrive through a precise aperture in the curtain wall where a new vehicular ramp lifts cars directly from grade into the first‑floor reception and the test bay. Labs and wellness rooms enclose the rest of the level in a tight, efficient figure‑of‑eight, letting engineers move from laptop to lift jack efficiently.

One level up, a 942‑seat cafeteria doubles as an all‑hands venue. Lightweight furniture and retractable AV let staff switch from lunch service to company briefings quickly and without additional facilities support. Above, three identical work floors hold between 323 and 454 workstations each, interlaced with amphitheatres, phone booths, and writable scrum alleys—so no desk sits more than thirty paces from a place to huddle, brainstorm, or think aloud.

An eight-storey central atrium drops daylight deep into the plan; its radius is picked up in custom curved gypsum forms and pendant lighting rings, lending every level a subtle sense of spin and anchoring the community spaces around the void.

Harshitha Vashishth , Meghana Reddy, Sri Vishnu Vardhan , Unmesh TJ , Rakshitha Mohan , Chithra , Varun Kaveetil